Vista corrupting my iPod

I know everyone has answered this a thousand times and that theres updates and everything for it. But i just got my new 160 gb classic and im running windows vista and everything is fully up to date but my iPod still gets corrupted when i sync it to my computer. HOW DO I FIX THIS?? been having this problem over and over and it annoys me like crazy. please help. again, ive tried pretty much everything everyone says to do and it just keeps messing up my iPod. restoring doesnt help. i dont use a hub, i connect the iPod directly into the computer. i just finished updating everything: itunes, my vista software, my ipod software, but it still corrupts my ipod. help!

I have also had terrible problems since 1.0.2 has been released. When you try to eject the ipod it goes into a reset mode - where it shows the apple screen and after about 8 seconds restarts again. They only way out of it is to go to disk mode and restore.
What errors / problems are you getting?

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